Now all the believers were together and held all things in common.

Now the large group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common.

Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they would all meet in Solomon’s Colonnade.

“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything common and ritually unclean!”

Again, a second time, a voice said to him, “What God has made clean, you must not call common.”

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

“‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’